Senior Java Technical Lead

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Must have experience leading teams and managing development teams.
• Demonstrated experience providing team and solution leadership, including guiding technical direction, coordinating development activities, and ensuring alignment with approved architecture and delivery objectives.
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance within multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience developing complex enterprise or public-facing applications.
• Experience implementing user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, and database components.
• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-based environments.
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, automated deployment, and configuration management.
• Experience developing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, and databases.

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS or public sector exp.

Skill Set Requirements:

Experience:

• Experience developing and maintaining complex enterprise applications using Java.
• Experience translating technical specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria into working software.
• Experience developing user interfaces, APIs, integration services, business logic, and database components.
• Experience building automated unit, integration, API, database, and user-interface tests.
• Experience developing and deploying cloud-based microservice architecture solutions in Microsoft Azure, including deployment pipelines, configuration management, and application monitoring.
• Experience reviewing code and enforcing development, security, documentation, and testing standards.
• Experience troubleshooting complex defects and resolving performance, reliability, and integration issues.
• Experience implementing secure coding practices and addressing identified vulnerabilities.
• Experience supporting deployments, production-readiness activities, and post-implementation stabilization.
• Demonstrated experience providing team and solution leadership, including guiding technical direction, coordinating development activities, and ensuring alignment with approved architecture and delivery objectives.
• Experience mentoring developers and providing technical guidance within multidisciplinary teams.

General Skills / Duties:

• Design, develop, configure, test, and maintain Java application components.
• Build and maintain cloud-based microservices in Microsoft Azure, including interfaces, APIs, integrations, data-access components, and automated tests.
• Participate in solution design and technical planning.
• Review code and provide practical feedback to development team members.
• Diagnose and resolve defects, performance issues, security concerns, and integration failures.
• Support continuous integration and deployment activities.
• Prepare and maintain technical documentation.
• Estimate development work and contribute to sprint and release planning.
• Support test teams, business acceptance testing, deployment, and implementation.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for improvement.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Software Development Experience:

• Experience developing complex enterprise or public-facing applications.
• Experience implementing user interfaces, APIs, services, integrations, and database components.
• Experience applying object-oriented, structured, and Agile development methodologies.

Cloud, Integration, and Deployment:

• Experience developing and deploying applications in cloud-based environments.
• Experience with APIs, integration patterns, automated deployment, and configuration management.
• Experience supporting application monitoring and operational readiness.

Testing, Security, and Quality:

• Experience developing automated tests for user interfaces, APIs, and databases.
• Experience applying secure coding and code-quality practices.
• Experience troubleshooting defects and improving application performance and maintainability.

Communication and Technical Leadership:

• Experience providing technical guidance and conducting code reviews.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate technical issues and recommendations clearly.